On 14/07/12 20:49:11, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Dieter Maurer <die...@handshake.de> wrote: >> I, too, would find it useful -- for me (although I do not hate myself). >> >> Surely, you know an alarm clock. Usually, it gives an audible signal >> when it is time to do something. A computer can in principle be used >> as a flexible alarm clock - but it is not so easy with the audible signal... >> An audible signal has the advantage (over a visual one) that you can >> recognize it even when you are not looking at the screen (because you >> are thinking). >> >> Unfortunately, I had to give up. My new computer lacks a working >> speaker... > > There's a simple cheat you can do. Just invoke some other application > to produce the sound! My current alarm clock comes in two modes: it > either picks a random MIDI file from Gilbert and Sullivan's > "Ruddigore", or it plays the "Alice: Madness Returns" theme; in each > case it just invokes the file with its default association (see the > "start" command in Windows, or "gnome-open" in, well, GNOME). > > Of course, working speaker IS a prerequisite.
The other prerequisite is that the use is physically near the compueter where your Python process is running. If, for exmple, I'm ssh'ed into my webserver, then sending a sound file to the server's speaker may startle someone in the data centre, but it won't attract my attention. If, OTOH, you do: print "\7" , then an ASCII bell will be sent across the network, and my terminal emulator will beep. It all depends. -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list